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With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submission from October 2020.
With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from October 2020: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s “Submission of the Month” award for October.
At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by voting for your choice.
Featherweight title challenger Thanh Le chats to MMA Junkie Radio ahead of his title fight with Martin Nguyen at ONE Championship 118 in Singapore.
Featherweight title challenger Thanh Le chats to MMA Junkie Radio ahead of his title fight with Martin Nguyen at ONE Championship 118 in Singapore.
ONE lightweight champion Christian Lee thinks the action will start fast against Iuri Lapicus, but promises to drag the challenger into deep waters and defeat him at ONE Championship 118 in Singapore.
ONE lightweight champion Christian Lee thinks the action will start fast against Iuri Lapicus, but promises to drag the challenger into deep waters and defeat him at ONE Championship 118 in Singapore.
Ahead of his return at ONE Championship 118, two-division champion Aung La N Sang says he may focus his future career at middleweight.
Ahead of his return at ONE Championship 118, two-division champion Aung La N Sang says he may focus his future career at middleweight.
ONE Championship 118 is now official for Oct. 30, and four championship fights headline the card.
ONE Championship 118 is now official for Oct. 30, and four championship fights headline the card.
ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong recently revealed the promotion’s plans, though he declined to name a location for the behind-closed-doors event, which will stream live on B/R Live.
In the night’s main event, two-division champion [autotag]Aung La N Sang[/autotag] (26-10) puts his light heavyweight title on the line against undefeated Dutch challenger [autotag]Reinier de Ridder[/autotag] (12-0).
Additionally, welterweight title holder [autotag]Christian Lee[/autotag] (13-3) puts his belt on the line against undefeated challenger [autotag]Iuri Lapicus[/autotag] (14-0), lightweight champion [autotag]Martin Nguyen[/autotag] (13-3) faces “The Ultimate Fighter 22” cast member [autotag]Thanh Le[/autotag] (11-2), and women’s flyweight champ [autotag]Jing Nan Xiong[/autotag] (14-2) faces [autotag]Tiffany Teo[/autotag] (9-1).
Additional fights are expected to be announced shortly.
“You know, I hate to sound trite but the show must go on, and what I have learned personally is that my team at ONE Championship, the resilience, the passion, the excellence, has far exceeded my expectations,” Sityodtong said on a recent media call promoting the event. “I will tell you that the morale internally in ONE Championship is at all-time high. People are just fired up.
“I always say that in crisis, you really discover who you are as a person, who you are as an individual, and as a team, and one quote that comes to mind, always is, you know, ‘Ships are not made for the calm waters of the harbor, ships are made for the rough seas in search of new horizons,’ and, ‘Great captains are made in rough seas, never in the calm of the harbor.’ That’s why I said, you know, I think, I genuinely believe that the best companies in the world will not only survive, they will thrive in the same way ONE Championship is thriving in this environment. The show must go on.”
ONE Championship hasn’t hosted a title fight since January’s ONE Championship 107 event in the Philippines.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forced ONE Championship officials to halt live events from March until late July, when the company set up shop for a string of six fight cards in Thailand.
Ahead of the Oct. 30 event, the promotion will host two cards in Singapore, starting with Friday’s “ONE Championship 116: Reign of Dynasties,” which streams on B/R Live.
The lineup for “ONE Championship 118: Inside the Matrix” currently includes:
